Vanas KoS

Vanas KoS is a Kill-on-Sight notifier, that uses every possibility, to detect nearby KoS targets, and notifies the user in different ways. Additionally it records PvP-Stats in outdoor PvP and shows these in the tooltip (configurable).

Features:

KoS List for Players and Guilds

Nice list

Hate list

Sorting of these Lists

All Lists are saved per realm

PvP Event Map

PvP Statistics

Golden Dragon around player portrait, if Player is on KoS List, Silver for Guild-KoS List, Red for Hatelist, Green for Nicelist

Modifies the Tooltip with the Reason you (may) give on adding a Player/Guild

Notifies you if a player on your KoS list is doing something near you (fight/buff/talk) in Chatframe, Upper Area and via Sound

Warning Frame that helps you to track hostile or friendly activity around you

Nice GUI - try /kos

Command line interface for managing KoS lists

Distributed Tracking - Other People help you tracking down your KoS-Targets

Minimap Button

Can dock itself into the Friends Frame.

Automatic synchronization with people on your guild

LibBroker support

Can add a context menu to the player portrait

Saves a list of the last attackers for easier adding via minimap button or libBroker

FAQ:

General:

Q: How can I backup my KoS-Data & SettingsA: Copy the file WoW\WTF\Account\*YourAccountName*\SavedVariables\VanasKoS.lua to a safe place of your choosing.

Q: I found a LUA-Error/Bug, What shall I do? A: Goto http://www.wowace.com/addons/vanas-kos/tickets/ and describe what you did to cause the problem (or when it happened) and post the lua-error-message. As we may have additional questions, please check back in/have a valid email at curse for ticket updates.

Synchronization

Q: Why aren't my guild members entries displaying?A: Make sure that you do not have "Show only my entries" checked. You and your guild members must also enable sharing of their lists with the guild.

Notification:

Q: How can I add some additional mp3 sound files for notifications?A: You can either send them to me with a license disclaimer that allows the distribution/packaging with vanaskos (if you own the rights) or You can add your own sounds by modifying WoW/Interface/AddOns/VanasKoS/modules/Notifier.lua The list of sounds is at the top of that file. Just put your extra sound files somewhere inside the WoW directory. VanasKoS uses LibSharedMedia-3.0 so it also has access to any other addon's sounds."

Distributed Tracking:

Q: How does the Distributed Tracking works? A: Fine, Thanks!

Q: I see weird messages in my Chat Window on the Channel CrbZ????, What's up with that? A: It's not normally supposed to be visible. But you can disable the displaying of that channel in the settings for the chat window. Just uncheck it there.

Q: My channel-numbers are all screwed upA: It seems that your computer is too slow. VanasKoS joins the Distributed Tracking Channels 20 seconds after login/changing the Zone. You can modify this value manually in WoW\Interface\AddOns\VanasKoS\modules\DistributedTracker.lua under "JOIN_DELAY".

Help the Addon/Authors:

Q: How can I support the authors and development of this addon?A: You can either use the "Donate"-Button on the curse VanasKoS-Page, or get a curse-premium Account. Curse gives a part of their earnings through the premium-program back to the addon-authors.

Q: I can code in lua and want to develop xyz?A: Write me a PM with your idea and experience - I'll review the idea and if it's finished include it in vanaskos, or if you want to develop more add you as a co-author.

Other:

Q: How much do you make with this addon?A: Near to nothing - My (Vanas) payment/hour for VanasKoS is less than 10cents, don't worry though - it's a hobby for the authors, so the revenue isn't a factor for development, but it also means that the real-life job is more important, so bear with us when answers/development take a little longer.

Q: Vana...Vana.. I seem to remember this name from Lineage2A: You are right, I worked on a popular (and the first) lineage2 drop-database back then.

@reehay: The auto-sync occurs once an hour when using v3.16. And you have to be sure to enable the lists you wish to send and receive.
"lookup in VanasKoS" is supposed to return whether or not the player is in one of your lists.
I only add enemies to my kos list. I add friendly players who I don't want to party with to my hate list. I use nicelist for the rare occasion an enemy player is well, nice. Or sometimes just to add a note for friend.
The wanted list in 3.16 is part of the distributed tracking module. It is the list of players others have marked as "wanted" and you will send notification for if you see.

i love the addon but im assuming the sync option isnt fully working (we're using v3.16)? some friends and i are trying to send and receive our KOS lists but only some of us are receiving anything. does the auto-sync occur only when you first log online? enter a zone? or must we be right clicking each other's names in our Friends window and performing "look up in VanasKOS"? and what is the difference between a "hatelist" and "kos" list? and when i flag players as "wanted" should they be adding to the "wanted" list? because mine stays blank.

in any case, VanasKOS is still great and we look forward to future releases.. thanks for your work and time.

Hey, good work on this mod so far. Any update on when guild synchronization is coming to 4.0? We're having issues with 3.0 failing to sync and losing player data constantly, so we're definitely anxious for 4.0 to get to release!

name is the player to add if it is enclosed with '<' and '>' it will be interpreted as a guild name. If no name is given the target is used. If there is no target (or it's not a player) you get a popup asking for the name.

reason is any further arguments. If no reason is given, another popup window asks for it.